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Drools vs. TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Grid

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Drools

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ADrools is an open source business rules management system developed by Red Hat.N/A

    TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Grid

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AActiveMatrix Service Grid is an SOA governance and application server, from TIBCO.N/A
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    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    DroolsTIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Grid
    SOA Governance
    Comparison of SOA Governance features of Drools and TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Grid
    Feature
    Drools
    -
    Ratings
    TIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Grid
    5.8
    1 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Service registry00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Service management00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Service discovery00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Dependency management00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Policy management00 Ratings4.01 Ratings
    User Ratings
    DroolsTIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Grid
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DroolsTIBCO ActiveMatrix Service Grid
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Open Source
    As an open source rule engine and product suite, Drools is well suited for the small and middle scale business to manage and integrate the rules to build the rule-driven system which can process the business-critical data and events to produce the automated decision. It is better to use Drools in the well-secured environment (back-end behind the DMZ), not putting it on the customer-facing front or exposing it directly the to public where may bring direct security risk in the enterprise environment. Drools still needs a lot hardening on the security side.
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    Cloud Software Group
    It fits perfectly for SOA and EAI architecture with large numbers of services that required to be wired to each other, the binding virtualization is quite good to simply this part. For the simple scenario of orchestration and /or ESB architecture could be a better use traditional stack.
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    Pros
    Open Source
    • Writing rules with business focus
    • Rules evolution and maintenance
    • separate business logic from program code
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    Cloud Software Group
    • reduce the number of http port required by services
    • simplified the binding connection amongst services
    • high scalability and fast deployment of applications
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    Cons
    Open Source
    • Fusion doesn't support persistence of working memory, which brings some extra high availability risk to our business.
    • Guvnor still has a lot room to be implemented, it is not so user-friendly for non-technical people, so a lot of business users complain it is hard to master.
    • Rule execution server doesn't even have JMX implemented, hard to be monitored.
    • Drools is still lacking support for key Web services standards.
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    Cloud Software Group
    • health check of services and application features has been released with a lot of bugs that have never been fixed
    • it is not so simple to apply the security policy to service/reference binding
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    Alternatives Considered
    Open Source
    I did not participate in drools choice. I can only compare drools with the previous situation which was using nothing.
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    Cloud Software Group
    TIBCO service grid has been chosen as a natural selection of the TIBCO product evolution. The high flexibility and the binding virtualization fits very well with client needs for its EAI applications due to the huge number of services and applications, the management of application dependencies during deployment, the advantage of perfect integration with EMS for logging
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    Return on Investment
    Open Source
    • The IT department quickly adopted Drools as it is a very good java-based rule engine, which saves a lot of time to meet the project timeline and balanced our business requirements.
    • Recently we start considering the OpenRules, which may be more business user-friendly.
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    Cloud Software Group
    • The integration of old BW with BWSE and its interface quite similar to design time has reduced the cost of training for developers
    • The TIBCO support for this product is no the best and clients complains too much about this. This required to find a workaround or force the client to move to new/or different product. Huge impact on ROI
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